Deciding under uncertainty
Explore what making decisions in extreme mountain conditions can teach us about making decisions in business.
Dr Albert Meige
Explorer of technology and uncertainty
An astonishing mountain experience, drawing parallels with business decision-making that I had never heard before.
Two signature keynotes
Artificial intelligence and the mountains raise the same question: how do you decide and act when information is incomplete? Albert Meige is one of the few to tackle both with the same rigour: that of the scientist, the entrepreneur and the mountaineer.
AI: who is pulling the strings?
AI is getting better and better, faster and faster. And we rely on it more and more. A keynote on what drives its performance, the vulnerabilities it creates, and how to start preparing for them now.
Albert demystifies artificial intelligence without trivialising it. You come away with a real framework for making decisions, not platitudes about innovation.
Hundreds of keynotes, seminars and workshops delivered
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From senior leadership — CEOs, executive committees and boards — to audiences of over 2,000 people
- LVMH
- TotalEnergies
- Airbus
- Sanofi
- Safran
- Banque Populaire
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- Saint-Gobain
- Thales
- BPI
- Carrefour
- Aéroport de Paris
- Vinci
- Dassault Aviation
- Crédit Agricole
- Orange
- FIB
- AGIRC-ARRCO
- Agence du Numérique de Défense
- Questel
- Medef
- Hutchinson
- Enedis
- Cactus
- Pomona
- Avril
- Matmut
- BPCE
- Forvia
- Valeo
- MBDA
- EDF
- Solvay
- Schneider Electric
- Groupe Seb
- ESCP
- Veolia
- BB Lomé
- Institut Carnot
- Eutelsat
- Audilab
- Alstom
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- TEDx Polytechnique
- TF1 20h
- France Info
- France 24
- Mobility TV
- CCI de l'Ain
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- CCI Essonne
- CCI Toulouse & Occitanie
- Académie des Technologies
teaching & training
- HEC Paris
- ESCP
- Corps des Mines
- Institut Mines-Télécom
- Sciences Po Paris
- École Polytechnique
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- Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers
- École Centrale
- Centrale-Supelec
- la Sorbonne
Why choose Dr Albert Meige for your event?
Because he can't be put in a box.
The disconcerting child.
“A disconcerting child.” My teacher wrote that on my school report in my first year of primary school. It took me a long time to understand what she meant. I think it was already my way of seeing the world: spotting connections others miss, linking trends, anticipating events before they become obvious to everyone.
The aspiring polymath.
This systemic view was shaped by a path that refuses to settle on a single field: scientist, entrepreneur, artist, adventurer. Far from being a distraction, this diversity sharpens a nuanced perspective, where hands-on experience meets conceptual analysis.
The magician.
Carrying all of this takes one more, rarer skill: the stage. Alongside my studies, I worked as a magician. It taught me rhythm, silence and suspense, everything you need to teleport an audience into the heart of a story, even when that story is about artificial intelligence, strategy or uncertainty.
A speaker who breaks the mould. Dense, nuanced content, flawless delivery, zero corporate jargon.
Biography
Albert Meige is an entrepreneur, author and speaker working at the intersection of technology and strategy under uncertainty. Associate Director at Arthur D. Little and Director of the Blue Shift Institute, he is also Vice-President of Impact AI and teaches at ESCP. He founded the start-up Presans in 2010 and sold it to Arthur D. Little in 2020. He has also served as academic director at HEC and at Institut Mines-Télécom. A telecommunications engineer with a PhD in computational physics, he also holds a degree from HEC. Winner of the École Polytechnique Innovation Prize in 2008, he is the author of two books (Innovation Intelligence, Kilomètre 360), around ten academic papers and a report for the French government, La Formation de l'Esprit Entrepreneur. He also holds two patents. An explorer and mountain ultra-endurance athlete, he thrives on uncertainty. An amateur photographer, he can also solve a Rubik's Cube in under 50 seconds.
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Deciding under uncertainty
Alongside his consulting career, Albert explores uncertainty through a demanding passion: ultra-endurance in the mountains. He shares the lessons he has drawn from these extreme experiences and connects them directly to the world of business. How do you prepare for uncertainty? How do you turn the unexpected into an opportunity?
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AI: who is pulling the strings?
The length of tasks AI agents can complete on their own doubles every four months. They are now closing in on the symbolic threshold of an eight-hour working day. We have all become dependent on algorithms. And this is only the beginning. Or perhaps the end… In this keynote, the audience will learn what drives the performance of AI and how this technology is transforming our organisations. We will then look at the vulnerabilities we are exposing ourselves to, and how to prepare for them.